The popular Windows text editor Notepad++ is now available for the first time as a native macOS application. Members of the open-source community around developer Andrey Letov have fully ported the ...

Create a Table in Notepad using the Formatting toolbar Insert a Table in Notepad using the right-click menu Create a Table in Notepad using Markdown Syntax. Press the left mouse button, and the table ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility knife. It opens ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...

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If a user opened this Markdown file in Windows 11 Notepad versions 11.2510 and earlier and viewed it in Markdown mode, the above text would appear as a clickable link. If the link is clicked with ...

Bad actors could use the flaw to remotely load and execute malicious files on a victim’s computer. Bad actors could use the flaw to remotely load and execute malicious files on a victim’s computer. is ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Microsoft is rolling out new artificial intelligence features with the latest updates to the Notepad and Paint apps for Windows 11 Insiders. These changes are rolling out to Windows Insiders in the ...